A survey of routing protocols in wireless body area networks for healthcare applications

International Journal of E-Health and Medical Communications

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 1-18

  Elhadj, Hadda Ben ^a   Chaari, Lamia ^a   Kamoun, Lotfi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SFAX   (Tunisia)

Author keywords

Healthcare; Network; Routing; Wireless body area networks (WBAN); Wireless sensors networks

Indexed keywords

EID: 84872905576     PISSN: 1947315X     EISSN: 19473168     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4018/jehmc.2012040101     Document Type: Review

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